Plus: Email Shows FBI Using ‘Counterterrorism Tools’ Against ‘Concerned Parents’
November 17 2021
Good morning from Washington, where President Biden’s homeland security secretary thinks he’s doing a good job on border security. Fred Lucas breaks down his tone-deaf Senate testimony. Biden’s infrastructure spending bill could make things worse, Peter St. Onge writes. On the podcast, Virginia Allen explores the strength of The Daily Wire’s lawsuit over Biden’s vaccine mandate. Plus: House conservatives slam that mandate; parent activists assert their right to criticize school boards; and an Ohio congressman wants the attorney general to stop investigating such parents. On this date in 1973, amid the Watergate scandal that would end his presidency nine months later, President Richard Nixon tells newspaper editors gathered in Orlando, Florida: “I am not a crook.”
“What about the issue of some of your Border Patrol agents recently being accused by some folks in the media of whipping illegal immigrants, when in fact they were not?” asks Sen. Lee.
An email shows “federal law enforcement operationalized counterterrorism tools at the behest of a left-wing special-interest group against concerned parents,” says Jordan.
President Biden’s nominee to fill the empty seat on the Federal Trade Commission has a history of opposing immigration authorities’ use of data to enforce the law.
Youngkin’s victory in the Virginia governor’s race has further energized parent activists mobilized against woke ideology in schools, leaders at a rally outside the U.S. Capitol say.
Rather than fixing the supply chain crisis, this bill instead uses it as an excuse to push a gigantic handout for special interests, radical left-wing activists, and unions.
The president of the National School Boards Association says a White House meeting prompted Attorney General Merrick Garland to direct the FBI to investigate parents.
